That's not much to be happy about, but I'd prefer it. Couldn't imagine swimming with the sociopathic sharks: I have to feed them daily and I've lost a few fingers, no way am I getting into the tank with those fuckers.

Then it became solace. I dropped down to loser, and at first was unsatisfied and looked to climb again. After awhile, I realised.. hey at least I'm not morally crippled like clueless and sociopaths.

At first I brushed this off. But over time it's more and more relevant to office dynamics.
Being one of the clueless who struggled with how to progress and succeed to no avail, it was difficult to accept that because I can't compromise morally and ethically, I'm stuck where I am.

5) Product, you live in that 10% difference. You're not special, you're not the hottest thing ever, you made a barely functional piece of code that other people have to support for much longer than it took you to write it, you short sighted drink-the-koolaid mfers.

4) Your product is so special that it needs a fundamentally different CI/CD pipeline? BULLPLOP. 90% of pipeline work will be the same across all projects and if not, it better be: static/dynamic tests, caching, artifact storage, gating.. standards! If product determines this, you're screwed.

3) But since $$$ rules all, velocity is king, and if another non-techies motherfucker talks to me about 'move fast break things' I'll tell 'em that means 'Move fast break people' you soulless fucking corpo-douche.
Any technicals that tell me same, you're quislings or traumatized by product mgmt.

2) It's akin to being asked to design and build a skyscraper, but the client wants to dictate all aspects (where they can be bothered) including where the plumbing will go, the elevators (don't go to all floors, who needs that) and the size of each floor. MADNESS.